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BMCBI
2007
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Bioinformatic identification of novel putative photoreceptor specific cis-elements
Background: Cell specific gene expression is largely regulated by different combinations of transcription factors that bind cis-elements in the upstream promoter sequence. However...
Charles G. Danko, Vera A. McIlvain, Maochun Qin, B...
BMCBI
2007
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Statistical significance of cis-regulatory modules
Background: It is becoming increasingly important for researchers to be able to scan through large genomic regions for transcription factor binding sites or clusters of binding si...
Dustin E. Schones, Andrew D. Smith, Michael Q. Zha...
BMCBI
2007
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Predicting combinatorial binding of transcription factors to regulatory elements in the human genome by association rule mining
Background: Cis-acting transcriptional regulatory elements in mammalian genomes typically contain specific combinations of binding sites for various transcription factors. Althoug...
Xochitl C. Morgan, Shulin Ni, Daniel P. Miranker, ...
BMCBI
2008
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Determining significance of pairwise co-occurrences of events in bursty sequences
Background: Event sequences where different types of events often occur close together arise, e.g., when studying potential transcription factor binding sites (TFBS, events) of ce...
Niina Haiminen, Heikki Mannila, Evimaria Terzi
BMCBI
2010
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Creating PWMs of transcription factors using 3D structure-based computation of protein-DNA free binding energies
Background: Knowledge of transcription factor-DNA binding patterns is crucial for understanding gene transcription. Numerous DNA-binding proteins are annotated as transcription fa...
Denitsa Alamanova, Philip Stegmaier, Alexander E. ...
BMCBI
2010
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Apples and oranges: avoiding different priors in Bayesian DNA sequence analysis
Background: One of the challenges of bioinformatics remains the recognition of short signal sequences in genomic DNA such as donor or acceptor splice sites, splicing enhancers or ...
Jens Keilwagen, Jan Grau, Stefan Posch, Ivo Grosse
BMCBI
2010
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Unifying generative and discriminative learning principles
Background: The recognition of functional binding sites in genomic DNA remains one of the fundamental challenges of genome research. During the last decades, a plethora of differe...
Jens Keilwagen, Jan Grau, Stefan Posch, Marc Stric...
BMCBI
2010
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Inference of sparse combinatorial-control networks from gene-expression data: a message passing approach
Background: Transcriptional gene regulation is one of the most important mechanisms in controlling many essential cellular processes, including cell development, cell-cycle contro...
Marc Bailly-Bechet, Alfredo Braunstein, Andrea Pag...
BIOINFORMATICS
2007
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Simultaneous alignment and annotation of cis-regulatory regions
Genomic transcriptional processes rely heavily on the combinatorial binding of transcription factors on the upstream regions of genes. Analysis and complete characterization of su...
Abha Singh Bais, Steffen Grossmann, Martin Vingron
GCB
2005
Springer
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Composite Module Analyst: A Fitness-Based Tool for Prediction of Transcription Regulation
: Functionally related genes involved in the same molecular-genetic, biochemical, or physiological process are often regulated coordinately Such regulation is provided by precisely...
Alexander E. Kel, Tatiana Konovalova, Tagir Valeev...